This is really going to help a lot of people this is really going to give you a better understanding what degeneration is what arthritis is what spinal stenosis, all these types of degenerative processes stem from instability one way or another. So let's go into the different aspects, and a different reasons how, and why we're getting these particular problems. So let's move on, I think that you will enjoy this program and we'll move on right here. This just shows us a little bit that instability will cause neck pain, many symptoms, not just only neck pain, but we're talking about radiation of the neck, possibly in the in between the shoulder blades into the shoulder, down onto the arm into the hand and fingers, you can get tingling numbness, you can get discomfort into the chest. When this instability continues, the nerves become inflamed and irritated. And those joints become more arthritic, obviously, which we're going to talk about, but even under the Skol.
So these nerves can play lots of funny games, not only under the skull, but even into the jaw and facial area, which we'll see in just a couple of minutes. So as we move up here, you're gonna ask me, how does this occur? So our next part of our lesson here is teaching you why potentially, are you getting these type of inflammatory problems, constant neck problems? Well, let's look at this, we've we've talked about this many of my videos about our head, our head being 12 pounds, and for every inch, it goes forwards, it's an additional 10 pounds, you could just show you that when people are texting, looking down, the amount of degrees that they are looking down is proportional to the amount of weight that you see in the force of the neck, the more looking down you do, the more forces on the neck, the more instability The neck is going to have. The other potential thing is looking here, the correct way versus the incorrect way, I always recommend people to jump to chin down or bring that particular thing that you're looking at, via maybe your phone, maybe your iPad, or whatever it is bring it up to your
up to your face, you can look at that.
Okay, let's go on to right here. That's another particular situation with forward head posture. Remember, that head weighs 12 pounds, I'm going to show you something really interesting. This just shows you a way of stabilizing your neck, you don't have to use this way to suggest an idea. We're not going to spend a lot of time on this. But look here, basically, you are carrying around a bowling ball, how many people out there went bowling one time or another I have, and those bowling balls can get quite heavy. But let's look right here. If you're sitting and you got a bowling ball right there sitting on your head, I don't know about you, but I know that I can't take that bowling ball and hold it out in front of me like this for more than a couple seconds. Now imagine your head with that bowling ball weight is going forward like this. Can you imagine the damage it's doing? It's stretching ligaments, stretching ligaments causes instability. So the difference between hyper-mobility and instability is hyper-mobility means that you have stretching ligaments, but you don't have symptoms. instability means you're gonna usually have symptoms, which we'll touch on in a little bit. So this is the bowling ball here. Again, this is showing just a how it moves forward the amount of weight going forward looking at your iPad or your book versus standing or sitting up correctly with those ears over the shoulder extremely important. When we look at these bowling balls. It kind of gives us a better idea that next time we do this, we're going to kind of think of something that we better stop. This we talked about many times. This shows you the studies here. This is capacity, physiology and joint volume three showing us the normal posture. 12 pounds for every inch, which is two inches here, it's 20 pounds extra for every inch is 10 pounds, but that's 32 pounds for two inches, 42 pounds for three inches. And this is our major epidemic that we are seeing right now. Now the other way that we can experience instability is through the old whiplash. This happens hundreds of 1000s and 1000s of people throughout the world.
I will say millions of people and they not only be from a car accident, it could be just from from jarring of you from a sport which we'll show you in just a minute. But what about this slip and fall? This happens all the time people fall fall into the shoulder, a significant whipping of the head, a jolting of the head stretching the ligaments in the joints. And many people just kind of get up and they may be bashful or shy and they don't want to make anything out of it and they start having significant problems. Here's those soccer injury this
is a serious injury. This is landing on the neck with the great force of the body causing stretching those ligaments. Just imagine, you know, we're looking at a spine here, realize that around the spine, we have ligaments holding it together, we have muscles over those ligaments, obviously, when the muscle contraction allows a spine to turn or move or flex. But this is very fragile here. And remember, you have the nerves that come out between the vertebrae, and the discs sit between the bodies of the vertebrae. So when they're stretching, like this, look how the spinous processes are fanning apart. Well, that's ligaments on the back of that and it's stretching. And when the ligaments are stretched, it's kind of like me explaining, you know, take a rubber band, and over stretch, that rubber band doesn't come right back the purpose of ligaments, the whole bone to bone to hold it tight. So those ligaments are loose, what happens to the joints, they become more lacs, they become unstable, they become unstable, we start inflaming nerves and causing pain. And here is another very important thing, the old net-cracker not Nutcracker. But netcracker, you must not crack your neck, if you are doing that, you can just see the force the dynamic force of what you're doing to the spine, stretching those ligaments. And even though you say wow, that pop felt good, that noise felt good. And by the way, the noise is just nitrogen and carbon dioxide being released from the joint space. But you're gonna say, wow, that felt good. But what you're doing is you're stretching ligaments, I can't tell you how many people how many emails I get hundreds and hundreds talking about, I wish and never would have cracked my neck or developing all kinds of problems and headaches or radiating pain chronically for a long time. Please look at my videos on net cracking a lot about there. And it really talks about some good stuff in there. So check that out. Let's go on to a little bit of nuts and bolts. Here's an A to P open mouth looking at the mouth open up like this. Ah, and we look at the first vertebrae just called the the Atlas up top called the lateral mass see one to the left, if you see that, you see c to the axis. And you look at the odontoid process. That's a very important area, because of the Atlas and axis up top. That's where 50% of our movement comes initially, then the rest of the 50% comes below will be flexion flexion and extension, but the majority of our rotation comes from up top. Okay, a lot of that rotation, that's where a lot of problems a lot of instability occurs commonly in rheumatoid arthritis as well as down in the lower mid cervical region. But we do see quite a bit with rheumatoid. Let's talk about the Atlas bone here, you can look at just a little anatomy not to spend much time you can come back to this, we're looking at the first vertebrae are on top called the Atlas looks like a ring to that ring up there. So see one, that's the Atlas and right below a C two called the axis and that dens that comes up like the thumb. Well, that's kind of like the Atlas that goes around the axis. This is really important information, you have the eyler ligament, that's a keeps things in tact. But when that area is stretched, could be fall on your head crack and your neck automobile actions whiplash or just chronic poor posture, those ligaments start to stretch. Remember, that way, the head being 12 pounds now becomes 22 pounds, 32 pounds, 42 pounds, 60 pounds, and that over time stretches ligaments. Okay, I really hope you digest that very, very important. Here is the Atlas here again, just talking about instability, what happens up there. So the different view you can come back to that this is rotary instability quite commonly, we see this, you can come back and read that little later. Here's the old X ray of that same area, that is instability called the a DI space, the Atlanta dental interval space that is wider than it should be, it should not be more than three millimeters.
So there are things we can pick up the little lower and a mid neck, you see that ugly, those those vertebrae count down 123, and four, you see those vertebrae, that arthritis right there, I can't show you. And you can see the kissing spyness processes in the back, if you count down from the back of the vertebrae number three and number four, I can't show you in the pointer here. But I'll show you another picture right here.
This picture here shows us a flexion extension of the neck area.
If you look all with the left everything if you look at the back of the vertebral bodies, which are the square bodies, in the black and the black between those vertebral bodies or the discs, but it's even when it goes forward. But if you look to the right, and it says 4.34 millimeters, well between C six and C seven when when the neck was extending backwards, that area shifted 4.34 millimeters and I believe over 3.5 is abnormal. So that is instability. So there are things that we can see with instability. But the problem with instability is that a lot of the problems are static. For example, if we ask a patient to bring their head back or forward to the side, sometimes the muscle spasms won't allow them to fully bring it back
Because of the lack of mobility, so it's very, very hard to pick up.
instability in the neck and many, many cases. That's why you have to have a pretty thorough diagnosis and a good clinician a good doctor to really examine that. So, down in the middle of the neck there, that is degeneration, they're down 123456. That's the generation. Oh, by the way, when we get the generation the neck, see how it looks different lower neck than the, the vertebrae above how the displaces are thinner. When we get degeneration, that happens quite often when there's instability. So a lot of arthritis osteoarthritic changes spondylosis all degenerative changes, the set degenerations for set, imbrication, spurs, even fusions, osteophytes, some desmo, fights, these are all calcification that takes place in the spine, it stems from instability. When something's unstable, things degenerate. It's like if your knees unstable the joint the generate the hips, unstable the hips, the generates, the shoulders unstable, the shoulder degenerate, it does stem from instability. So if we look up here, this just allows you to understand that these nerves when they become on when these these joints when they become unstable, affect other areas. This causes TMJ problems in the jaw, the studies are out there. And what do we do when we have TMJ, we only look at the job, well, potentially it may be coming back here, I want to throw that out just for a source of knowledge. Here's an X ray here, showing you a normal neck compressed neck, we can see forward head posture causing all that degeneration all those discs are really thinned out. That is instability when those disc get thin. The vertebrae become closer together affecting on those nerves. Here's another area here. The importance of normal structural integrity of the neck area that when you have forward head posture, is throws the integrity off it affects the nerves and affects the neurological system. We then can get tinnitus, vertigo, headaches, lightheadedness, giddiness, this is where it comes from. Many of these cases come from degenerative problems and instability of the neck by the millions more than you could imagine. So and that's why people are on drugs and not getting well because when I get to the root of the source of the problem, the generation here is normal discs above and degenerative disc below, look at the difference. Okay, but degeneration comes from instability. It's so important. instability is a leading cause of degeneration. So now the next question arises, what do I do? I've got degeneration, I've got instability, I've got pain and gut issues. Well, anytime there is instability, they usually there is ligamentous laxity. And we generally do not want to excessively put it through a excessive amount of range of motion. So we like isometric exercises. Now, here.
I like using ice. Excuse me, if it's in plain, I like using heat. If it's chronic, the difference between ice and heat, anytime you have inflammation, even acute or even semi acute or even later on acute because you have a chronic problem does not mean that maybe one day you're spending a lot of time looking dumb, maybe you're lifting maybe you had an accident or an injury and you inflamed it again, got to go back to ice. Whenever in doubt, use ice ice is really important. Ice takes away inflammation, heat brings in circulations you can read this later. That's good to know. Another question that quite commonly comes up is what about a color in my neck feels unstable? Well, if you were just in a significant action or an injury, I would say yes, I would tell you to stabilize, I would definitely tell you to stabilize the first several days. But that's it. It looks like people with lower back and Sadek. They've done the studies they said people used to stabilize the lower back and lay in bed all the time. I thought those people would heal quicker. They don't they heal slower. Because what happens is the muscles atrophy if you don't use it, you lose it. So that neck, those neck muscles. With that collar, those muscles start to get weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker. Obviously, you need muscles that are strong to hold the head up. So the first couple days and toss it get rid of it. If you don't have surgery, if you don't have anything significant, nothing torn up and broken. Get rid of it. No good. No good. Okay, so these are the basic, the isometric exercises, pretty much what we're doing is we're just taking the head pushing force against it about five seconds of relaxing, doing about 12 repetitions doing an all different ranges of motion. Those are important. The other thing is I love this. So this is one of the trap stretches we've done on our videos. Just bending the knees slightly crossing the arms and holding above the knees and kind of when you stand up, you feel all these muscles under here on the traps. Just stretch. Try that sometime. Hold out, hold that and kind of stand up as you're holding that you feel all these muscles start to open up and stretch
It's very safe, you're not putting the neck through any mobility. This right here, I love it, the quadruped Ed arm leg raise, we kind of call this like the halfway Superman, excellent for CT, excellent for the neck, excellent for the muscles around it stabilize the neck, realize
that even though this is not directly hitting the neck, indirectly, it's helping the neck. Very important. People, you need to understand that when you have an injury up here, you need to look at what is stabilizing that particular area down here. Whatever goes wrong down here is going to affect the neck as well. Just like when your feet are protonated, okay, or you're flat footed, or you have this plantar fasciitis and the arch has dropped, that's gonna bow the legs and affect internally rotate the hit affect the imbalance all the way up the spine and affect the neck. So these exercises are real good, believe it or not for neck conditions. Here's another thing that we talked about just in a recent video we did, but you put something up against her pillow, and you can resist against going backwards, you can go up actually, let me skip that. See if I can come to this. No, I mean, where did it go? Here's the other one. Going laterally, you can do it going forward. The resistive exercises good. They're called isometric isometric exercise means you're strengthen the muscle with no move with no movement. Generally, the first four or six weeks we like to do that with significant inflammation, significant instability. But if it's chronic, then generally you can usually put it through range of motion, if it's chronic, but if it's newly inflamed, if it's unstable, if it's related to an injury, you do not want to put it through excessive mobility. Now, chin talks are one of my favorite not only for forward head posture for for instability, for degeneration, for osteoarthritis, for spondylosis. For any type of neck problem, unfortunately, the weakest muscles of our neck are the anterior neck flexors. And those are the muscles that stabilize the head that keep your head from going forward. So when these muscles are weak, then I know that you have forward head posture. And I can tell you that if you have forehead posture, you have weak anterior neck flexors, you need to make sure you're doing that you can do that line down your back, just just a chin and you could put pressure against the bed, you can go upside down, you can go on your belly, and just the chin and come up against gravity going upwards. There are different ways you can be creative, but that is one of the best things for your neck, I can promise you. Here the plank the plank is an excellent thing. Although I realize that many people can do this for whatever reason, although I will take you to the last important thing called the transverse abdominus. Now these are our muscles of our core, our external abdominal obliques rectus abdominus internal abdominal oblique, and our transverse abdominus. Although the transverse abdominus is the most important muscle for core, that is a deep, deep, deep abdominal muscle, I want you to take your fingers or your hand and put it on your belly. Come on everyone right now when you're sitting up, I want you to push in your belly and cough like this.
Guess what those muscles deep in there is your transverse abdominus that's how important it is. Now those muscles stabilize the lower back. Now, in order to work this muscle how to do it I have a video on this is called the no setup exercise. But I'll show you how it works very simple. You're sitting up take your take your one of your hands or both your hands you can do it like this, put it on your belly button, do it right now. And I want you to go ahead and squeeze your belly button back into your spine. Squeeze your stomach in as far as you can. Let's just like this. I'm going to squeeze it
and hold it for five seconds.
You feel that huh? Relax it. Okay. Squeeze your belly in against your spine all the way back and hold it for five seconds. Again. Go ahead, squeeze it, come on squeezing, squeezing.
It hurts. That's just two of them. Try doing a dozen of them. Try doing two sets of those, I want you to start doing that exercise that will strengthen your your, your transverse abdominus that will strengthen your lower back, strengthen your core and help your neck because what it's going to do when you sit up it's going to keep you upwards and keep you stable and keep you strong because when your transverse abdominus is weak, this is what happens. Okay, we claps our shoulders go forward a head goes forward and we start developing more instability.
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